Plant Hunting for Kew

Second Hand
Soft back
Published by: HMSO

1st edition. Book Condition: Fine.
Appears unread. As New.
Includes endpaper maps and colour and black and white photos and illustrations throughout the text.
Ever since the middle of the 18th century, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew have been finding, cultivating and introducing plants previously unknown to science.
This contains 20 accounts of specimen-hunting safaris to remote corners of the world over the last few decades.
A good read.
ISBN: 9780112500384